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Comptia Project + Project Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs
earned value (EV)
risk management plan (Output/Input)
risk tolerance
probability and impact matrix (Tool)
2. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals
lead (Technique)
result
authority
acquire project team (Process)
3. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response
project initiation
failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) (Technique)
secondary risk
work authorization system (Tool)
4. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
code of accounts (Tool)
node
claim
estimate to complete (ETC)(Output/Input)
5. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result
workaround
risk tolerance
early finish date (EF)
produce scope
6. Defined function to be performed by a project team member
closing processes (Process Group)
initiating processes (Process Group)
role
master schedule (Tool)
7. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion
define activities (Process)
estimate at completion (EAC)(Output/Input)
progressive elaboration (Technique)
Monte Carlo analysis
8. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event
opportunity
workaround
planning package
report performance (Process)
9. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds
lessons learned knowledge base
input (Process) input
finish to finish (FF)
project management office (PMO)
10. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success
BCWS
virtual team
work package
identify stakeholders (Process)
11. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information
project communications management (Knowledge Area)
strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats analysis (SWOT)
product
sponsor
12. Processes that organize and manage the project team
resource leveling (Technique)
work package
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
three point estimate (Technique)
13. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project
application area
constraint (Input)
performing organization
assumptions
14. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.
functional manager
progressive elaboration (Technique)
node
late finish date (LF)
15. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s
time scaled schedule network diagram (Tool)
sequence activities (Process)
imposed date
work performance information
16. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining
resource breakdown structure
sequence activities (Process)
to complete performance index (TCPI)
resource histogram
17. Schedule activity that has a low total float.
earned value technique (EVT) (Technique)
planning package
near critical activity
technique
18. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram
sensitivity analysis
trend analysis (Technique)
actual cost of work performed
organizational breakdown structure (OBS) (Tool)
19. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs
develop project management plan (Process)
start to start (SS)
firm fixed price contract (FFP)
perform qualitative analysis (Process)
20. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule
project communications management (Knowledge Area)
monitor and control project work (Process)
risk management plan (Output/Input)
develop schedule (Process)
21. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded
activity attributes (Output/Input)
start date
change control board (CCB)
organizational breakdown structure (OBS) (Tool)
22. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase
log
budget
close project or phase (Process)
procurement management plan (Output/Input)
23. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.
start to start (SS)
grade
specification limits
time scaled schedule network diagram (Tool)
24. Budgeted cost of work scheduled
staffing management plan
subproject
earned value management (EV
BCWS
25. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
duration (DU or DUR)
project
rework
estimate activity resources (Process)
26. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones
master schedule (Tool)
scheduled start date (SS)
risk acceptance (Technique)
failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) (Technique)
27. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.
lessons learned knowledge base
failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) (Technique)
lead (Technique)
staffing management plan
28. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project
scope
work breakdown structure component
early finish date (EF)
project scope
29. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities
master schedule (Tool)
product
sequence activities (Process)
work package
30. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone
free float
change requests
milestone schedule (Tool)
common cause
31. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers
Monte Carlo simulation
plan procurements (Process)
BCWP
identify risks (Process)
32. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.
near critical activity
successor activity
specification
finish to finish (FF)
33. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines
change control
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
workaround
voice of the customer
34. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me
analogous estimating (Technique)
three point estimate (Technique)
common cause
forecast
35. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts
report performance (Process)
organizational breakdown structure (OBS) (Tool)
deliverable (Output/Input)
schedule performance index (SPI)
36. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables
staffing management plan
project scope
rework
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
37. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval
scope creep
budget at completion (BAC)
logical relationship
residual risk
38. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications
define activities (Process)
buffer
rework
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
39. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed
estimate (Output/Input)
project risk management (Knowledge Area)
precedence diagramming method (PDM) (Technique)
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
40. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used
earned value technique (EVT) (Technique)
projectized organization
precedence relationship
BCWS
41. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline
monitor
earned value technique (EVT) (Technique)
output (Process)
perform integrated change control (Process)
42. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.
portfolio management (Technique)
issue Point or matter in question or dispute
project management plan (Output/Input)
work authorization system (Tool)
43. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand
finish to finish (FF)
risk tolerance
risk mitigation (Technique)
backward pass
44. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives
BCWP
direct and manage project execution (Process)
planned value (PV)
late start date (LS)
45. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units
project management knowledge area
organizational breakdown structure (OBS) (Tool)
opportunity
collect requirements (Process)
46. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active
slack
imposed date
resource calendar
project management system (Tool)
47. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
verify scope (Process)
project management team
assumptions analysis (Technique)
project quality management (Knowledge Area)
48. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team
seller
responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) (Tool)
earned value management (EV
monitor and control project work (Process)
49. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks
assumptions
preventative action
project cost management (Knowledge Area)
change control board (CCB)
50. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.
s-curve
perform quality assurance (Process)
resource histogram
brainstorming (Technique)